CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, July 11, 1984
Page 9
Good weather raises wheat yield
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The nation's 1984 bumper winter wheat crop is expected to total 2.02 billion bushels, 2 percent more than both a June estimate and last year's harvest, the government said yesterday.
; The estimate was raised above last month's forecast as favorable weather caused forecasters to invest in their per-acre yield estimates.
The Agriculture Department's monthly crop update indicated that wheat planted last fall for harvest this summer would produce the third largest crop in history even though farmers idied more than one-fifth of overall wheat acreage as a condition for participating in a government price support program.
Winter wheat makes up about three-fourths of the nation's wheat harvest. The first official estimate of the remaining wheat crop, planted this past spring for fall harvest, would be issued in August, Preliminary forecasts put the spring wheat crop at 502 million bushels.
THUS THE TOTAL wheat crop could be 2.5 billion bushels, the third largest in history. With domestic and foreign demand falling short of that total, price-depressing surpluses are expected to mount.
The latest winter wheat estimate was based on a survey taken July 1, when harvest was 30 percent complete, about on schedule. As of this past weekend, harvest of the winter wheat crop was 51 percent complete, two percentage points ahead of average for this time of year.
Board said that the winter crop was in "generally good condition."
The department's Crop Reporting
IN KANSAS, the largest winter wheat state, the crop was estimated at 418 million bushels, compared to 399 million bushels estimated last month and 448.2 million bushels harvested last year.
The record overall wheat crop was nearly 2.8 billion bushels in 1981.
The record yield last year helped produce a wheat winter crop of 1.99 billion bushels in spite of the largest acreage reduction program in history under the payment-in-kind program.
The board predicted the average winter wheat yield would be 39.6 bushels per acre, the second highest on record, compared to 38.2 bushels estimated for the past two months and a record yield of 41.8 bushels last year.
U.S. Embassy gate hit by Muslim rocket
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — A rocket slammed into the gate of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in the first attack on the mission since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, a Western diplomat said yesterday.
The incident Sunday was one of a series of shellings in the Afghan capital that began last week and coincided with reports that fierce infighting within the country's leadership had erupted in shootings and assassinations.
A diplomat said the embassy entrance was hit during what was
believed to be a Muslim rebel attack on government-run Radio Afghan, just 100 yards away from the mission and a frequent rebel target.
Embassy guards were in the area but no one was injured 'when the rocket hit and lightly damaged the roof of the embassy gate, the diplomat said. Another rocket landed on a house nearby, injuring one person, she said.
Two days earlier, 18 people were killed by three artillery rounds that crashed into the Khairkhana area of the capital, about two miles west of the U.S. Embassy, the diplomat said. It was unclear why fire the rounds.
with reports of shootings and assassinations of top government officials as a result of fierce feuding between the Khalq and Parcham factions of the ruling communist party.
Two diplomats said Defense Minister Abdul Qadar shot and wounded Communications Minister Aslam Alkarli early last week during an argument.
"If true, it may be part of the ongoing factional infighting as Wattajar is a member of the Khalqi faction. . . and Qadar is a member of the Parcham," one diplomat said.
The shells in Kabul coincided
Both men played pivotal roles in the 1978 coup that brought the communists to power in Afghanistan.
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